Majority of students object to less homework

By Digital Media

BANGKOK, Feb 16 – More than half of Thai youths disagreed with the government’s instruction of less homework for students, according to an academic survey.

A NIDA Poll under the National Institute for Development Administration conducted the survey among 1,252 young Thai people nationwide on Feb 9-11, seeking their opinions on the Education Ministry’s newly-announced leniency on students’ hairstyle and homework.

On less assignment of homework for students, 55.43 percent of the respondents expressed their disagreement, saying homework helps students improve their skills and sense of responsibility. Those who advocated the Education Ministry’s move, representing 34.74 percent, said less homework lessens their tension as some teachers overloaded their students with homework.

Ask if less homework would improve students’ learning ability and non-classroom activity, 41.77 percent said it would help as students will have more time to develop their skills in other fields such as group discussions, while 31.79 percent were rather pessimistic, saying students would spend their free time playing games or hanging out.

Regarding the Education Ministry’s abolition of the decades-old regulations on short hair for girls and crew cut for boys, 48.88 percent threw their support to permission for students to wear longer hair, reasoning that they had been uneasy with the strict regulations on students’ haircut and that a student’s educational performance is unrelated to his/her hairstyle.

However, 42.41 percent said short haircut keeps students disciplined and suits the students’ status. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2013-02-16

Rule 1: Now wear your hair as you please.

Rule 2: Now you CAN fail if you do no work all year and fail all your exams...just dreaming..ok

Like the students would care. Less homework means less homework to copy. Plus a lot of the "homework" the Thai Teachers give them is copying verbatim from their books anyway.

Here's a novel idea..how about overhauling Thai education system by copying effective curriculum used elsewhere in the world.

I am a teacher. I sprinkled this article on my garden and it grew better.

I am a foriegn teacher in Thailand. I sprinkled this article on my garden and it grew better.

Yet another noob laughing at his own comments.

The result of this "academic study" is almost as surprising to me,as the result of a survey some time ago,who found,that a majority of Thai`s put littering highest on a list over what they disliked most..!